PTSD can cause many symptoms. These symptoms can be grouped into three categories: 1. Re-experiencing symptoms:
Flashbacks—reliving the trauma over and over, including physical symptoms like a racing heart or sweating
Bad dreams
Frightening thoughts.
2. Avoidance symptoms:
Staying away from places, events, or objects that are reminders of the experience
Feeling emotionally numb
Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry
Losing interest in activities that were enjoyable in the past
Having trouble remembering the dangerous event.
3. Hyperarousal symptoms:
Being easily startled
Feeling tense or “on edge”
Having difficulty sleeping, and/or having angry outbursts.
Austin Oakes
The children Many children were directly affected by the violence. They lost family members (often in front of their eyes) or were subjected to physical violence or sexual abuse. Children witnessed their homes being looted and burned down and they fled to safer areas where they waited in refugee camps for the war to end. Lack of social structures When the war was over, in 2002, a recovery process was set in motion. Refugees returned to their homes where they tried to rebuild their lives. The war had however led to the social and economic disintegration.
Scott Roh
What causes post-traumatic stress disorder?
The event(s) that triggers PTSD may be:
Something that occurred in the person's life.
Something that occurred in the life of someone close to him or her.
Something the person witnessed.
A child's risk for developing PTSD is often affected by the child's proximity and relationship to the trauma, the severity of the trauma, the duration of the traumatic event, the recurrence of the traumatic event, the resiliency of the child, the coping skills of the child, and the support resources available to the child from the family and community following the event(s). The following are some examples of catastrophic, life-threatening events that may cause PTSD if experienced or witnessed as a child or adolescent:
Serious accidents (such as car or train wrecks)
Natural disasters (such as floods or earthquakes)
Man-made tragedies (such as bombings)
Violent personal attacks (such as a mugging, rape, torture, being held captive, or kidnapping)
Physical abuse
Sexual assault
Sexual molestation
Emotional abuse
Neglect
Scott Roh
Causes and effects against Ishmael
Ishmael Beah comes across many problems when experiencing the stages of PTSD. He realizes he is going through huge changes mentally and that they are creating a big effect on him. - Ishmael seems to have a major problem with the re-experiencing symptoms for PTSD. These symptoms contain bad dreams, flashbacks, and terrible thoughts in the head. -Ishmael also has problems with hyper-arousal symptoms which includes being easily startled, feeling uneasy and tense, and having angry outbursts.
Some examples of Ishmael going through PTSD : - Bottom of Pg 117 explains Ishmael feeling more tense than ever and being unable to shoot his gun. This shows the hyper-arousal symptoms of PTSD. -Pg 120 shows Ishmael having nightmares and trouble sleeping. This shows the re-experiencing symptoms of PTSD. -Beginning of Ch 16, Pg 138 tells us how Ishmael is having angry outbursts from simple things. This is another example of hyper-arousal symptoms of PTSD.
Austin Oakes
The Ex-Child soliders and there struggles with the aftermath
Austin oakes The type of therapy for the victims Music
Comics books about the battles
Sources: http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/stw/Page.asp?PageID=STW026937
"The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
For the Institute to continue fulfilling this vital public health mission, it must foster innovative thinking and ensure that a full array of novel scientific perspectives are used to further discovery in the evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience. In this way, breakthroughs in science can become breakthroughs for all people with mental illnesses."
Austin Oakes and Scott Roh
Scott Roh
1. Re-experiencing symptoms:
- Flashbacks—reliving the trauma over and over, including physical symptoms like a racing heart or sweating
- Bad dreams
- Frightening thoughts.
2. Avoidance symptoms:- Staying away from places, events, or objects that are reminders of the experience
- Feeling emotionally numb
- Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry
- Losing interest in activities that were enjoyable in the past
- Having trouble remembering the dangerous event.
3. Hyperarousal symptoms:Many children were directly affected by the violence. They lost family members (often in front of their eyes) or were subjected to physical violence or sexual abuse. Children witnessed their homes being looted and burned down and they fled to safer areas where they waited in refugee camps for the war to end.
Lack of social structures
When the war was over, in 2002, a recovery process was set in motion. Refugees returned to their homes where they tried to rebuild their lives. The war had however led to the social and economic disintegration.
Scott Roh
What causes post-traumatic stress disorder?
The event(s) that triggers PTSD may be:- Something that occurred in the person's life.
- Something that occurred in the life of someone close to him or her.
- Something the person witnessed.
A child's risk for developing PTSD is often affected by the child's proximity and relationship to the trauma, the severity of the trauma, the duration of the traumatic event, the recurrence of the traumatic event, the resiliency of the child, the coping skills of the child, and the support resources available to the child from the family and community following the event(s).The following are some examples of catastrophic, life-threatening events that may cause PTSD if experienced or witnessed as a child or adolescent:
Scott Roh
Causes and effects against Ishmael
Ishmael Beah comes across many problems when experiencing the stages of PTSD. He realizes he is going through huge changes mentally and that they are creating a big effect on him.- Ishmael seems to have a major problem with the re-experiencing symptoms for PTSD. These symptoms contain bad dreams, flashbacks, and terrible thoughts in the head.
-Ishmael also has problems with hyper-arousal symptoms which includes being easily startled, feeling uneasy and tense, and having angry outbursts.
Some examples of Ishmael going through PTSD :
- Bottom of Pg 117 explains Ishmael feeling more tense than ever and being unable to shoot his gun. This shows the hyper-arousal symptoms of PTSD.
-Pg 120 shows Ishmael having nightmares and trouble sleeping. This shows the re-experiencing symptoms of PTSD.
-Beginning of Ch 16, Pg 138 tells us how Ishmael is having angry outbursts from simple things. This is another example of hyper-arousal symptoms of PTSD.
Austin Oakes
The Ex-Child soliders and there struggles with the aftermath
Austin oakes
The type of therapy for the victims
Music
Comics books about the battles
Sources:
http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/stw/Page.asp?PageID=STW026937
"The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
For the Institute to continue fulfilling this vital public health mission, it must foster innovative thinking and ensure that a full array of novel scientific perspectives are used to further discovery in the evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience. In this way, breakthroughs in science can become breakthroughs for all people with mental illnesses."